The Art & Structure of Powerful Ideation

The Art & Structure of Powerful Ideation

If you think you suck at Ideation, that’s a signal that you’re doing it well.  You’ve probably brought ideas into meetings that your team didn’t like, or customers didn’t like it during prototyping, or even launched a feature or product that the market didn’t...
Behavior Design for Sanitation in rural Panama

Behavior Design for Sanitation in rural Panama

I like to think that I didn’t choose to work in behavior design – behavior design chose me. And it all started when I showed up to a rural community in Panama as their Peace Corps Volunteer. I was trained to implement water/sanitation systems in communities that...
Synthesis – A Product Manager’s Core Skill

Synthesis – A Product Manager’s Core Skill

Synthesis. It’s such a beautiful word.  Oxford defines it as “the combination of ideas to form a theory or a system”.  My perspective is that the ability to synthesize is a key skill for Product Managers who are obsessed with their customers. Synthesizing...